Vantage Point with Eli Amdur

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Vantage Point Ep 26: “What Hath God Wrought? Three Questions for the Leaders of AI” Listen now: https://eliamdur.com/what-hath-god-wrought/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep26&utm_content=launch

Critical thinking and the cost of opinion. Eli Amdur suggests we figure things out as they happen. It takes guts to be right. Send this to a loud voice. Listen now https://eliamdur.com/intuition-age-of-analytics/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep25&utm_content=clip3 #CriticalTh

How analytics changed sports and business. Eli Amdur reflects on losing the beauty of intuition. We need bravery in decision making. Send this to a fan of the old game. Listen now https://eliamdur.com/intuition-age-of-analytics/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep25&utm_content=c

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Vantage Point Ep 25: “Intuition in the Age of Analytics” Listen now: https://eliamdur.com/intuition-age-of-analytics/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep25&utm_content=launch

English nearly died a thousand years ago. It survived because it was porous and flexible. This linguistic adaptability is the same trait we need in critical thinking. Being open to new inputs is how ideas dominate. Save this for later. Listen https://eliamdur.com/prepositions-end-sentences/?utm_sour

Winston Churchill did not just ignore bad advice. He mocked it publicly. His famous margin note on the sentence ending with a preposition is a masterclass in style over rigid rules. This is why we are not political, just critical. Send this to a rule follower. Listen https://eliamdur.com/preposition

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Vantage Point Ep 24: “Prepositions Are Now Okay to End Sentences With” Listen now: https://eliamdur.com/prepositions-end-sentences/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep24&utm_content=launch

How to spot weak communication in hiring. Eli Amdur shares a story about a recruiter who used only 'amazing' and 'awesome' to describe a company. Learn why specific details matter in professional dialogue. Send this to a hiring manager. #hiring #communication Hear the full episode: https://eliamdur

The single most important skill for career success. Eli Amdur explains why effective communication outweighs every hard skill in the workplace. A must listen for anyone seeking professional growth and leadership impact. Save this for your career planning. #softskills #leadership Hear the full episo

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Vantage Point Ep 23: “Why Is Everything Either Awesome or Amazing?” Listen now: https://eliamdur.com/awesome-or-amazing/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep23&utm_content=launch

The speed of modern change is unprecedented. While alphabets took 6,000 years to spread, AI reached 1 million users in one hour. Critical thinkers must adapt to this pace. #AI #CriticalThinking Hear the full episode: https://eliamdur.com/ethics-of-progress/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_

The greatest challenge of the 21st century is not technology, but ethics. Eli Amdur warns that ignoring moral responsibility will lead to catastrophic outcomes. #Ethics #FutureOfTech Hear the full episode: https://eliamdur.com/ethics-of-progress/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Vantage Point Ep 22: “The Ethics of Progress” Listen now: https://eliamdur.com/ethics-of-progress/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep22&utm_content=launch

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Vantage Point Ep 17: “Are You Really Listening?” Listen now: https://eliamdur.com/are-you-really-listening/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep17&utm_content=launch

Listen now - the new Vantage Point special: “When Does Determination Beat Exhaustion?” https://eliamdur.com/when-does-determination-beat-exhaustion/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-special-16-1&utm_content=live

Stop treating AI extinction as breaking news. The fear that technology will wipe out humanity is nearly 100 years old. We are repeating a cycle of panic instead of asking better questions. #CriticalThinking #AIethics Hear the full episode: https://eliamdur.com/will-ai-kill-us-all/?utm_source=bluesk

“We make tremendous strides when we do two things: admit ignorance and ask questions.” — Eli Amdur Where do you land? Weigh in below, then hear the full episode at https://eliamdur.com/will-ai-kill-us-all/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep16&utm_content=aphorism1 and join the

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Vantage Point Ep 16: “Is AI Really Going to Kill Us All?” Listen now: https://eliamdur.com/will-ai-kill-us-all/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep16&utm_content=launch

Listen now - the new Vantage Point special: “The Greatest Non-Decision Ever Not Made” https://eliamdur.com/the-greatest-non-decision-ever-not-made/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-special-15-1&utm_content=live

Hiring for the long view: "The superstar you hire today could become CEO of your firm by 2050 and in turn hire the future CEO who will lead your company in 2099." Two steps from the 22nd century. Send this to a hiring manager. Listen: https://eliamdur.com/traits-not-skills/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_me

“Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.” — Eli Amdur Where do you land? Weigh in below, then hear the full episode at https://eliamdur.com/traits-not-skills/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep15&utm_content=aphorism1 and join the conversation on Fac

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Vantage Point Ep 15: “Hire for Traits, Not Skills” Listen now: https://eliamdur.com/traits-not-skills/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep15&utm_content=launch

Listen now - the new Vantage Point special: “What Happens When You Hire Somebody You Shouldn't” https://eliamdur.com/what-happens-when-you-hire-somebody-you-shouldnt/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-special-14-1&utm_content=live

Would you hire this candidate? Thursday's Vantage Point special runs the hiring thought experiment we'd all use for the biggest job on the planet. https://eliamdur.com/what-happens-when-you-hire-somebody-you-shouldnt/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-special-14-1&utm_content=teas

“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.” — Jonas Salk Where do you land? Weigh in below, then hear the full episode at https://eliamdur.com/where-ideas-come-from/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep13&utm_content=great_minds2 and join the conversation on Faceb

Intuition and discovery: Jonas Salk, a disciplined researcher, believed "intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." Eli Amdur on the instinct that precedes the evidence. Save this for later. https://eliamdur.com/where-ideas-come-from/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign

“In 2021 I had my COVID shot, first dose; my COVID shot, second dose; my pneumonia shot; my shingles shot, first dose; my shingles shot, second dose; my flu shot; and my COVID booster. When I was younger, doing shots was a much different activity.” — Eli Amdur Where do you land? Weigh in below, the

Why people say they aren't creative: schooling and routinized work "reward conformity, they reward compliance," while creativity "rewards defiance." Eli Amdur: properly channeled, that's a powerful force. Send this to someone told to fall in line. https://eliamdur.com/where-ideas-come-from/?utm_sour

“the man who invented the polio vaccine and changed the world. Salk was a very disciplined, thorough researcher who also believed in intuition. His words: "Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." It was certainly the case with him, and he moved forward from there.” — Dr. Jonas Sal

Creativity at work: "The most valuable asset any organization has is its employees' creativity. Creativity generates ideas. Ideas generate value." Eli Amdur on the asset that never shows up on a balance sheet. Save this for later. https://eliamdur.com/where-ideas-come-from/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_me

WHAT IF… What if Jonas Salk had agreed with the lawyers at the University of Pittsburgh to go after a patent for the vaccine? The whole remainder of the twentieth century would have been different. He refused to let it take that long and pushed straight into distribution, which he could do because t

Ideas vs thoughts: "The guy who invented pizza had an idea. The guy who orders it has a nice thought." Eli Amdur on why hundreds of daily thoughts produce almost no ideas. Send this to someone who confuses the two. Listen: https://eliamdur.com/where-ideas-come-from/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=soc

Thinking outside the box, revisited: "When you think you're thinking out of the box, look around, you may just be in a bigger box." Eli Amdur's warning to his clients. Save this one. Listen: https://eliamdur.com/next-great-idea/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep12&utm_content=c

“God Bless America was written by Irving Berlin. Irving Berlin was an immigrant. God Bless America was written by an immigrant. Just saying.” — Eli Amdur Where do you land? Weigh in below, then hear the full episode at https://eliamdur.com/where-ideas-come-from/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Vantage Point Ep 13: “Where Do Ideas Come From?” Listen now: https://eliamdur.com/where-ideas-come-from/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep13&utm_content=launch

“Doing well and doing good are not the same thing, but they go together very nicely.” — Eli Amdur Where do you land? Weigh in below, then hear the full episode at https://eliamdur.com/next-great-idea/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep12&utm_content=aphorism2 and join the conve

How bias shapes whose ideas get heard: we accept ideas more freely from senior leaders and executives with three degrees than from "smart, creative, fearless thinkers with the ink still wet on their bachelor's degrees." Save this. Listen: https://eliamdur.com/next-great-idea/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_

“while his medical-school classmates went into private practice and made fortunes, he went into research instead. When Salk's own lawyers told him, on the eve of release, that he hadn't patented the vaccine and a patent would take another year, he shut the conversation down: a year of delay meant ro

Cognitive bias at work: "our own construct of reality, a reality we often seek in advance, tends to override objectivity." Eli Amdur on how that leads to narrowed options and lost opportunities. Save this one. Listen: https://eliamdur.com/next-great-idea/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_cam

“We fail only because we allow ourselves to fail.” — Eli Amdur Hear the full story at https://eliamdur.com/steal-eleven-days-from-people-and-watch-what-happens/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-special-12-1&utm_content=quote1 and join the conversation on Facebook (facebook.com/v

Listen now - our first Thursday episode of Vantage Point is live: “Steal Eleven Days From People and Watch What Happens” https://eliamdur.com/steal-eleven-days-from-people-and-watch-what-happens/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-special-12-1&utm_content=live

WHAT IF… July 11, 1804 — the duel between Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, who as much as anyone built the country from its founding: the Treasury Department, the idea of public debt, the U.S. Coast Guard and later the Navy, the Bank of New York, the New York Post, trusted advisor t

On why the stronger side loses: he had everything he needed to win, and he did not. Eli Amdur on the difference between resources and resolve. Send this to a history buff. Listen: https://eliamdur.com/positive-word/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep11&utm_content=clip12 #histor

Anonymous ideas: imagine every idea reached you with no name on it, judged only on merit before the source was revealed. Eli Amdur asks how many you'd accept would come from unexpected places. Send this to a leader who decides things. Listen: https://eliamdur.com/next-great-idea/?utm_source=bluesky&

On human potential: people have wonderful possibilities and inscrutable depths, so there is nothing we cannot accomplish, we just have to do it. Eli Amdur. Save this. Listen: https://eliamdur.com/positive-word/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep11&utm_content=clip11 #potential

“Turning education over to AI and robots will be about as effective as kissing through a glass window.” — Eli Amdur Where do you land? Weigh in below, then hear the full episode at https://eliamdur.com/next-great-idea/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep12&utm_content=aphorism1

What happens when eleven days just vanish, and an entire country loses its mind over it? Thursday, on Vantage Point. https://eliamdur.com?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-special-12-1&utm_content=tease

Starting this week, Vantage Point is doing something new: a second episode every week. First one drops Thursday. https://eliamdur.com?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-special-12-1&utm_content=announce

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Vantage Point Ep 12: “Will You Recognize the Next Great Idea?” Listen now: https://eliamdur.com/next-great-idea/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep12&utm_content=launch

On growth and fear: throughout history we have stepped forward into growth or backward into safety. Eli Amdur on the people afraid to move. Send this to someone who needs a push. Listen: https://eliamdur.com/positive-word/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vp-ep11&utm_content=clip10